Alan Dixon wrote:
I'm looking for a way to determine if an arbitrary user (i.e, not the global or current user) has access to a node. The node_access() function in the node.module looks like what I want, except that it only applies to the current user. I only actually care if the user can view the node.
Any ideas?
I'd thought of redefining the $_GLOBAL['user'] temporarily and then running node_access, but I think that might be dangerous (side effects?). I could also just copy that node_access function and change the references to the global user, but I'm hoping someone's already thought through a more elegant solution.
this was a feature of node_access() but it never worked right so it was removed in 5. there is an issue on it somewhere. i would love to see an impersonation API becase we need it for programmatically submitting forms, nodes, etc